Okay, my last blog post — while freakin’ adorable — had little to do with knitting. Altho I did mention doing a goodly amount of knitting. So, I figure I owe it to the knitters among you to do a little knit chat and show some photos.
I am working on 4 projects these days. Kinda surprising since I would imagine myself to be more ambitious. But I am not running on 100% yet and since I seem content with 4 projects at the moment, I figured I would just go with that — and maybe get something finished!
I continue with The Color Blocks Puzzle Box — which is basically a wide lace panel with side borders of seed stitch. I know this lace pattern very well now and it is not particularly challenging — but I still managed to botch it the other night while watching the new Hercules Poirot “Murder on the Orient Express” (it is INTENSE — even if you are familiar with the plot!). Which meant I ended up doing lace “surgery” to fix it during Anakin Skywalker’s pod race last night — and well into the final battle of that movie — and I haven’t quite had the courage to look at it today yet. Apparently, lace knitting + pain meds + Hercule Poirot is a formula for disaster.
Fortunately, I have some classic plain knitting to fall back on (we have one more episode of Poirot to go…) — The Caramel Cardigan in stockinette stripes. Getting close to finishing the first sleeve!
Also fairly simple, the hip little hat I am knitting based on Cecelia Campochiaro’s “Sequence Knitting” is “knit 4, purl 4, knit 2, purl 2” repeated in a spiral using delicious Acadia Moraine (merino/baby alpaca/silk in a sophisticated taupe made irresistible with flecks of blue. This one is best worked without interruption — a great “in the zone” knit. It is perhaps unfortunate, then, that I am so easily distracted these days. I had to rip it all out and start again once already.
(Sarah has been rolling her eyes and making oblique references to the hazards of “knitting all cracked out”)
The project that seems to be getting most of my attention this week is the Artesian shawl. Garter stitch with short rows (this is the one with my fabulous homemade numbered markers) in ombré Freia wool. The colors unfold like a story and the rhythm changes of the short rows enhance the suspense. It is a good time!
The photos below show the projects in process: Color Blocks Puzzle Box, Caramel Cardigan, Hip Little Hat, and Artesian Shawl.